Tom Yedwab
Data Architect
United States
Summary
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Top SchoolTom Yedwab is a seasoned Data Architect with 14 years of engineering and leadership experience, currently leading Khan Academy’s Data Infrastructure team and shaping the organization’s data platform, instrumentation, ETL, backup/restore, A/B testing, and self-service analytics. He progressed through engineering and management roles at Khan Academy after a decade building content and user-generated content tooling at game and virtual-world companies, giving him deep product-focused systems experience. Tom combines hands-on full-stack development—evident from frontend contributions to a well-known Khan Academy exercises repo—with strategic architecture and team leadership. He holds advanced training in data science from UC Berkeley, which he leverages to bridge analytics rigor with production-grade engineering. Colleagues describe him as a pragmatic problem solver who refactors thorny codebases into reliable, user-friendly systems while enabling data-driven decision making.
14 years of coding experience
15 years of employment as a software developer
Master of Information and Data Science Data Science, Master of Information and Data Science Data Science at University of California, Berkeley
Hebrew, Spanish, French
Github Skills (4)
javascript10
css10
front-end-development9
html7
Programming languages (10)
Github contributions (5)
Khan/khan-exercises
Mar 2012 - Jul 2015
A (deprecated) framework for building exercises to work with Khan Academy.
Role in this project:
Full-stack Developer
Full-stack DeveloperContributions:22 commits, 1 push in 3 years 4 months
Contributions summary:Tom primarily worked on the frontend, making changes to CSS and JavaScript files related to the UI, especially within the context of a deprecated exercise framework. They updated the appearance of elements by changing background images and positions in the CSS. The user also addressed bug fixes in the Javascript, likely relating to the user's submission process. Furthermore, the user contributed by merging branches.
khan-academy
yiransheng/content-aware-ad-blocker
Sep 2016 - Dec 2016
Project Name TBD
Contributions:53 commits, 28 pushes in 2 months
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